New Student

New Student
I like how the students got to ask the new student questions during the morning meeting.

Planner
Even though the students were not at school a few days last week, the teacher still allowed students to clip up for every signature that they had in their planner from snow days.  I liked that idea.

Banana Observation
Some bananas shrunk. Students shook their containers to see what would happen, that is an easy way to keep students interested in the project. The students were grossed out, but seemed to like it!

Writing
The students filled out a graphic organizer for a paragraph, which could either be about their snow day or of the topic that they brainstormed about the last time that they wrote in their writer's notebook. I got to help a small group.

Checking morning Work
I got to lead the class in checking their morning work while my teacher sat in the back of the room. I wanted to have as many students interact as possible, so I had a student from one table read the problem and I had a student from the next table set up and solve the problem while I explained how they did it (this was in the interest of time, but it would have shown rigor for the students to explain how they solved it. I continued this for 6 problems. The engagement level was alright, but it could have been better. I was very happy with how much the students were working on the work. My teacher voice was pretty good. My students voiced that they were not comfortable with multiplication, so I made them use multiplication to solve the problems whenever possible. I asked them which two ways (addition and multiplication) we could use to find the answer.

Double Digit Multiplication
My students are nervous about this skill. I tried to simplify it for them.